Calendar listing for open source conferences, seminars, meetings, webinars, and more

August

PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. The sixth PyCon Australia will be held from July 31st to August 4th, 2015 in Brisbane, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country’s Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on.

We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive Alfresco Day on August 4th in San Francisco. Join the discussion and meet with top IT leaders and innovators from the open source community to collaborate and discuss best practices for document management, records management and business process management.

All Piwik analytics users, developers and friends are warmly invited to join the upcoming Community Meetup. It will take place on the 4th of August 2015 in Berlin (Kulturbrauerai, Schönhauser Allee 36). Start at 5pm.

The following issues will be covered during the meetup:
- upcoming features and the future of the Piwik platform
- tricks and hacks to get the most out of Piwik platform
- opportunity to talk to the core team behind Piwik, usually scattered around the world
- integrating your app and building plugins.

Setting up continuous integration for a single project can be a pretty daunting task. Doing that for hundreds of projects becomes a challenge of a different magnitude. Not only are their capacity problems, but some tests are destructive to the testing environment, some have esoteric environment demands. See how this is solved in the real world using Jenkins, jclouds, CloudStack to build an on-demand build infrastructure.

MoodleMoot US is a three-day event bringing together the diverse and talented Moodlers from across North America to collaborate and build on the open source project, Moodle. The conference aims to be relevant to educators from K-12, higher education and corporate sectors, uniting the Moodle community to share tips and best practices for creating Moodle learning environments.

The second annual meeting of the Koha North American Users Group will be held at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, PA, overlooking one of America's greatest natural freshwater harbors.

Whether you are new to Koha, or are just thinking about migrating, come meet some friendly and dedicated people already using Koha at their libraries. Friendships and connections made at a conference can be a benefit for a lifetime.

Experienced users will be able to take that next step using Koha. Learn about using self-checks, RFID, how to write your own reports, bug testing, and much more. Find a partner for developments or someone you can call when you need some advice.

The best reason to come to the 2015 KohaNA conference is to have some input on the future of Koha!

DebConf is the annual Debian developers meeting, an event filled with discussions, workshops and coding parties – all of them highly technical in nature. DebConf15, the 16th Debian Conference, will be held from the 15th to the 22nd of August 2015 at Heidelberg Internationalyouth hostel in Heidelberg, Germany.

This year's schedule of events will be exciting, productive and fun. As in previous years (final report 2014 [PDF]), DebConf15 features speakers from around the world. Past Debian Conferences have been extremely beneficial for developing key components of the Debian system, infrastructure and community. This year will surely continue that tradition.

CloudOpen is the only event providing space for education and collaboration designed specifically to advance the open cloud. It is a conference celebrating and gathering together the open source projects, products, technologies and companies that comprise the cloud and are driving the cloud, big data and networking ecosystems today and tomorrow. CloudOpen offers more than 60 sessions (including talks, hands-on tutorials, and keynotes) covering Cloud Platforms, Automation and Management Tools, DevOps, Virtualization, Containers, Software-Defined Networking, Storage & Filesystems, Big Data Tools and Platforms, open source best practices, and much more.

Software Developers deploying and developing open cloud solutions, IT operations professionals and IT architects responsible for deploying cloud solutions, CIOs/CTOs/VPs of Technology/Directors of Engineering at open cloud companies, Storage and network managers...everyone and everyone who has an interest in the development, advancement and future of open cloud solutions.

CloudOpen & LinuxConCloudOpen is the only event dedicated specifically to the open source projects, technologies and companies that make up the cloud. At the intersection of cloud computing and open source are Linux, so it was a no-brainer to co-locate CloudOpen with LinuxCon - a place where many of the folks working in open source cloud technologies were already gathering - in essence to create one larger event. CloudOpen attendees get full access to the additional content (over 100 sessions), attendees and collaboration opportunities available with LinuxCon. There is no separate cost or registration fee - just a lot more opportunity! For more information on LinuxCon, click here.

Virtualization is a crucial part of enterprise IT operations and cloud services and innovation is needed to make virtualization systems more efficient, adaptive, and easier to deploy.

Linux has been at the center of this with advancements in nearly every aspect of virtualization with Linux containers being the most recent disruptive technology.

The Linux Foundation is launching a new conference called ContainerCon to bring together leading contributors in Linux containers, the Linux kernel, and related projects to forge a path to continued innovation and education.

Linux containers are disrupting traditional application development and virtualization models; enabling businesses to explore new, improved methods of deploying their services and products. New developments in Linux containers are driving the adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in many industries and ContainerCon will provide a platform for exhibiting the best work. By being co-located with CloudOpen, ContainerCon will bring together a diverse range of experts from cloud computing and Linux containers to offer a general technical conference that is open to everyone; creating a place where companies on the leading edge can network with users and developers to advance computing.

LinuxCon is the place to learn from the best and the brightest, delivering content from the leading maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community and from around the world. There's simply no other event in North America where developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent gather together under one roof for education, collaboration and problem-solving to further the Linux platform.

Looking for deep technical content? LinuxCon North America has teamed up with the Linux Plumbers Conference on a shared track, offering even the highest level developers the opportunity to gain valuable knowledge on core development.

One flight, one venue, 100+ sessions (ranging from tutorials to deep technical dives and everything in between) and 1000 Linux community members to collaborate with. If Linux is your job, this is a conference you can't afford to miss.

Looks like a 100% chance of clouds! Open Source has played an enormous role in the innovation and advancement of Cloud Computing, with Linux taking center stage at the core. CloudOpen launched to overwhelming success in 2012 to meet the needs of this growing community. It is the only event dedicated to covering all of the open source projects, technologies and companies that make up the cloud.

We’ll be hosting CloudOpen in conjunction with LinuxCon again this year, and LinuxCon attendees have full access to the CloudOpen conference including 55+ breakout sessions, attendees, and even more collaboration opportunities. Did we mention that’s at no additional cost? One low registration fee gives you full access to both conferences.

KVM is an industry leading open source hypervisor that provides an ideal platform for datacenter virtualization, virtual desktop infrastructure, and cloud computing. Once again, it's time to bring together the community of developers and users that define the KVM ecosystem for our annual technical conference. We will discuss the current state of affairs and plan for the future of KVM, its surrounding infrastructure, and management tools. So mark your calendar and join us in advancing KVM.

Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution. Learn More About Apache CloudStack.

Aimed at users, developers and everybody else interested in Apache CloudStack, the CloudStack Days events are the place to learn more about CloudStack or join developers to discuss its past, present and future. Previously known as CloudStack Collaboration Conference, and held twice a year in North America and Europe, the format of the event has changed in order to hold more events reaching a larger number of users and developers.

#MesosCon fosters greater collaboration around Apache Mesos, bringing together users and developers to learn and share while accelerating growth of the project's ecosystem.

The conference will feature a morning workshop format to getting started with Mesos, a keynote, and afternoon talks to feature work happening in the community in both the core and ecosystem of frameworks.

Interested in supporting the efforts of those attending #MesosCon? Click here for information on sponsoring.

Texas Linux Fest 2015 is the sixth annual Linux and open source software event for Texas and the surrounding region. We are excited to bring you two days of general sessions and vendor sessions this year along with two full days of expo floor! Texas Linux Fest is for the business and home Linux user, and for the experienced developer and newcomer alike.

For the third time, the community behind ownCloud gets together at the TU Berlin for a week of writing code and sharing beer, knowledge and inspiration. The conference days on Saturday and Sunday provide a chance to learn and improve coding skills on and around ownCloud. Saturday morning starts with a keynote and lightning talks, in the afternoon and on Sunday the hackathon rooms open again and workshops take place.

If you're interested in building an ownCloud app or want to contribute to ownCloud in design, development, translations, advocacy or in any other way, join our event!

About ownCloud
ownCloud provides access to your data through a web interface or WebDAV while providing a platform to view, sync and share across devices easily— all under your control. ownCloud’s open architecture is extensible via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins and works with any storage.

Getting started is easy: ownCloud runs on almost every server and doesn’t have complicated dependencies. We also offer VM images, easy installation tutorials for Raspberry Pi like devices and have an extensive list of providers offering hosted ownCloud!

ownCloud is open source software, built by a vibrant community of people like you! Approaching 2 million users and 700 contributors, we're the largest open source sync & share project.

Join 200 people for a two-day event to explore the art and science of documentation. You can look forward to learning more about documentation systems, tech writing theory, information delivery, and more. Past talks have also covered such diverse topics as typography, empathy, and Wabi-sabi.
Write the Docs brings everyone who writes the docs together in the same room: Writers, Developers, Designers, Support Folks. The conference takes place on August 31 - September 1 (Monday and Tuesday) from 9am to 6pm in beautiful Prague, Czech Republic. The venue, Klub Lavka, sits right on the bank of the Vltava river, overlooking the Charles bridge, in the historical city center of Prague.

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